A bough he severs from a neighbouring tree,

  And shreds and shapes the branch into a pole:

  With this he sounds the stream, and anxiously

  Fathoms, and rakes, and ransacks shelf and hole.

  While angered sore at heart, and restless, he

  So lingered, where the troubled waters roll,

  Breast-high, from the mid river rose upright,

  The apparition of an angry knight.